Northern California Interreligious Conference & Community leaders will hold a free “Peace Concert” with area performers to celebrate Labor Day Weekend in the High Street Community and Appealing to Women to Help Turn the Tide on Violence in Bay Area Streets.

WHO- The Northern California Interreligious Conference; invited guests: Mayor Jean Quan, the Oakland City Council, the Alameda County Board of Supervisors, citizens of Oakland and the Bay Area with a special appeal to mothers, grandmothers, aunts, nieces and all women who are willing to speak law enforcement and government agencies on behalf of children.

WHERE- Miracles of Faith Community Church (ECLA), 4335 Virginia Avenue

WHY- The peace concert is the offshoot of several community gathers over the year that was catapulted by the “Take Back High Street Block by Block” March, Clean UP and Community Outreach launched on January 21, 2011 in protest of the violence taking the lives of young people in Oakland.

In January, the neighborhood rose up in arms to begin a neighborhood cleanup and march that culminated with a community commemoration of the work of Dr. Martin Luther Jr. at the Miracles of Faith Church. It was sponsored by High Street Coalition, the Northern California Interreligious Conference and supported by Oakland City Council members: Desley Brooks, Rebecca Kaplan, Libby Schaaf, Larry Reid and Ignacio De. La Fuente and Oakland City Auditor Courtney Ruby, the launch event was themed: “Together We’re Cleaning Up, Reaching Out and Changing Our Neighborhood Hand in Hand.”